Good evening Kristine,
I am sorry to hear that the tutorial was not helpful to you.
As a side note, we highly encourage our customers to customize their calendar to their specific requirements. You might want to read our Themer’s guide to get a sense of how that works in general.
Unfortunately, the level of support we can offer is only to get people started on the right track.
If coding is not really your cup of tea, you could always hire one of our recommended customizers to do the customization for you.
Your other option would be to manually use pictures that have exactly the same ratio (height vs width) and have similar length excerpts in each event. It might require a bit of work to achieve, but no coding is required for that approach.
Have a great day!
Geoff B.